South-East Wales and the English Border

Cloth $110.95ISBN: 9780708319567
Published
August 2008
For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only

Inscribed stones and stone sculpture form the most prolific body of material evidence that survives for early medieval Wales. The inscribed memorial stones in Latin or Old Irish ogam commemmorate the lives the Welsh elite of the time and are crucial to understanding the continutity of early medival Welsh culture with the preceding Roman culture, Irish settlements, and early Welsh kingdoms.